WAAD-volume3

Chukwuma Azuonye Power, Marginality, and Woman Being in Igbo Oral Narratives	5
Kofi E. Agovi Gender, Selfhood, and Social Change in Nzema Ayabomo Maiden Songs	41
Ayana Abdullah A Study of Bessie Head’s A Question of Power	69
Rose Acholonu Love and the Feminist Utopia in the African Novel	79
Ify Achufusi African Female Writers Revisited: An Analysis of Form and Technique in Bessie Head’s an Grace Ogot’s Fiction	95
Chinedu Agbasiere-Awugosi The African Woman in Search of Identity and Self Realization: The Examples of Nuruddin Farah, Buchi Emecheta, Flora Nwapa and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o	113
Julie Agbasiere Economic Independence in the African Novel	121
Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown Yearning for the Homeland: "The Return to the Source" in Contemporary African American Women’s Fiction and Visual Art	135
Ingrid Bjorkman Orature and Modern Women’s Literature—Discourses of Women’s Liberation or Oppression	151
Brenda Bosman Head Tells Stories: A Scandalous Emancipatory Strategy	167
Debra Boyd-Buggs Black, Green and Red: Negritude and Militancy in the Poetry of African and African American Female Poets	183
Patricia Fahamisha Brown Black World Poetry: Toward Definition and Poetics	207
Ipshita Chanda In Search of Sweetness: Ideas of the Diaspora in the Works of Ama Ata Aidoo	229
Margaret Daymond Seizing Meaning—The Autobiographies of Ellen Kuzwayo and Emma Mashinini	253
Frieda Ekotto Cleopatra Displaced: Power Dynamics in Francophone Theater	271
Uzoma Esonwanne Traveling with Sissie: Literature and Postcoloniality	285
T. I. Fadero The African Woman in Reality and Fiction: An Analogy Between the Non-fictional African Woman and the Fictional One in Wedlock of the Gods and The Dilemma of a Ghost	295
Susan Gardner White Sugar, Coke, and Feminism: How Not to Teach "Third World" Women’s Writing	307
Gloria Gibson-Hudson Culture Connections: Pan African Gender-based Consciousness in the Films of Black Women	323
LaVerne Gyant and Cathy Lyons In Search of Our Own Self Discovery: Their Eyes Were Watching God	345
Jennifer Henton Exiles: The Female Body of Black African Women Writers	359
Melinda Hernandez The Art of Things Falling Apart: Performative in the Faceof Vertigo— Bessie Head’s A Question of Power	373
Anthony Hurley The African Pilgrimage: The Response of a French Caribbean Woman Poet to the Problematic of Cultural Identity	385
Dunmade Ibukun Patterns of the Status of Women in African Novels	401
Dolores Person Lairet Cajou par Michèle Lacrosil: Reflects Dysmorphophobiques "au pays des merveilles"	413
Renée Larrier Roots Never Die: Women’s Solidarity throughout the African Diaspora in Michèle Maillet’s L’Etoile noire	421
Geta LeSeur The Monster-Machine and the White Mausoleum: Paule Marshall’s Metaphors for Western Materialism	429
Christine Loflin Mother Africa: African Women and Land in African Literature	445
Isabella Matsikidze Conceptualizing South Africa, Conceptualizing Gender: Consciousness-Invasion in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power	479